Challenge 2026: Each week in 2026, there will be a challenge - one practical way to live your faith. Week Forty-Five  In November, we remember the Holy Souls in Purgatory.  The Bible tells us that even after choosing to follow Christ, we are still sinners, but Revelation 21:27 tells us that nothing unclean will enter Heaven.  Then, Hebrews 12:23 describes those in Heaven as being made perfect.  As Catholics, we believe that when we die in friendship with the Lord, but still with attachment to sin, we go to purgatory to be made perfect for Heaven. In Luke 12, Jesus uses a parable with four servants.  One is faithful and is rewarded.  One is wicked and is punished and cast out. The other two are not perfect, and are punished but not cast out. Later in Luke 12, Jesus continues to talk about judgement and that they will be imprisoned until they pay the last penny.  This implies finite punishment like Purgatory. God wants to heal and free us from sin.  If that isn’t done in this life, death does not stop Him from purifying us in Purgatory.  This month, let us increase our knowledge of the Church’s teaching on Purgatory, and pray for the Souls in Purgatory, may they rest in peace.